St Vincent's College, Potts Point
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| Coordinates | 33°52′9″S 151°13′26″E / 33.86917°S 151.22389°E |
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| Former name | Victoria Street Roman Catholic School |
| Type | Independent single-sex secondary day and boarding school |
| Motto | Template:Lang-la (Religion and Knowledge united) |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Sisters of Charity |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Patron saint(s) | |
| Established | 1858[1] |
| Educational authority | New South Wales Department of Education |
| Principal | Anne Fry |
| Staff | ~63[2] |
| Years | 7-12 |
| Gender | Girls |
| Enrolment | c. 680 (2006[2]) |
| Campus type | Urban |
| Colour(s) | Blue, gold and white |
| Nickname | Vinnies |
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| Website | www |
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St Vincent's College (colloquially known as Vinnies), is an independent Roman Catholic single-sex secondary day and boarding school for girls, located in Victoria Street, Potts Point, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
The College is the oldest registered Catholic girls' school in Australia, founded by the Sisters of Charity as a co-educational primary school in 1858.[3] St Vincent's College follows the spirituality of Ignatius of Loyola. The College has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 710 girls in Years 7 to 12, including approximately 60 boarders.
St Vincent's is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA),[4] the Australian Boarding Schools' Association (ABSA),[1] the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia (AGSA),[5] and is a member of the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools (AHIGS).[6]
History
St Vincent's College was founded as the Victoria Street Roman Catholic School, by the Sisters of Charity in 1858, a year after the sisters established St Vincent's Hospital at the same site.
The school reopened as St Vincent's College, a secondary, fee-paying, private, independent school in May 1882, after the hospital's relocation to the neighbouring suburb of Darlinghurst. In 2009 Mary Aikenhead Ministries (MAM) was established by the Holy See at the request of the Congregation of the Religious Sisters of Charity of Australia and the St Vincent's College was transferred to MAM. In 2018 St Vincent's College celebrated its 160th anniversary[7] and in 2019 its 135th year of Boarding.
Principals
| Period | Details[6] |
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| 1858 – 1864 | Aloysius Raymond |
| 1865 – 1881 | Frances McGuigan |
| 1882 – 1896 | Ursula Brutin |
| 1897 – 1912 | Gerard Ryan |
| 1912 – 1920 | Kevin Purtell |
| 1921 – 1922 | Benedicta Martin |
| 1923 – 1925 | Joachim Burns |
| 1926 – 1936 | Dympna Bruton |
| 1937 | Carmella Kissane |
| 1938 – 1943 | Francis Jerome Donovan |
| 1944 | Maria Joseph hegarty |
| 1945 – 1948 | Marion Corless |
| 1949 | Peter Fenessy |
| 1950 | Laurence Young |
| 1951 – 1955 | Isabel Waldron |
| 1956 – 1959 | Joan Jurd |
| 1960 | Amadeus Paine |
| 1961 | Genevieve Campbell |
| 1962 – 1969 | Marion Corless |
| 1970 – 1976 | Mildred Carroll |
| 1977 – 1983 | Maria Wheeler |
| 1984 – 1994 | Margaret Beirne |
| 1995 – 2001 | Caroline Duhigg |
| 2002 – 2008 | Michelle Huggonet |
| 2009 – 2014 | Fay Gurr |
| 2015–Present | Anne Fry |
Notable alumnae
- Natarsha Belling – Channel 10 newsreader
- Lara Bingle – international model
- Grace Boelke – medical doctor
- Melinda Gainsford-Taylor – Australian athlete and Olympian
- Alex Hargreaves – rugby player
- Deni Hines – singer and actress
- Karen Krantzcke (deceased) – tennis player - ranked seventh in women's tennis singles in 1970. The WTA named an award - The Karen Krantzke Sportsmanship Award in her honour.
- Rachel Marley – singer and actress
- Gemma Sisia – humanitarian. Gemma established the School of St Jude in Tanzania in 2002, which "provides free, high-quality education to over 1,800 of the poorest Tanzanian children while boarding more than 1,400 students."
- Kerry Bray[8] - awarded OAM in 2020 for 40 years of organising community running.
See also
- List of non-government schools in New South Wales
- List of boarding schools in Australia
- Catholic education in Australia
References
- ^ a b "St Vincent's College". Schools - New South Wales. Australian Boarding Schools' Association. 2007. Archived from the original on 17 November 2007. Retrieved 6 February 2008.
- ^ a b St Vincents College Annual Report 2006 Archived 29 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine (accessed:15-08-2007)
- ^ About St Vincent's College Archived 6 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine (accessed:14-05-2007)
- ^ "New South Wales". School Directory. Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia. 2008. Archived from the original on 19 October 2008. Retrieved 6 February 2008.
- ^ Butler, Jan (2006). "Member Schools". Members. The Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia. Archived from the original on 19 May 2008. Retrieved 6 February 2008.
- ^ a b "Heads of New South Wales Independent Girls' Schools". AHIGS. The Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools. 2007. Retrieved 11 December 2007.
- ^ St Vincent's College - History Archived 18 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine (accessed:14-05-2007)
- ^ Trembath, Murray (8 June 2020). "Kerry was always in the running for an award". St George & Sutherland Shire Leader. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
External links
- Girls' schools in New South Wales
- Catholic secondary schools in Sydney
- Educational institutions established in 1858
- Boarding schools in New South Wales
- Potts Point, New South Wales
- Catholic boarding schools in Australia
- Sisters of Charity schools
- Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools
- 1858 establishments in Australia
- Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia